Improvement in separators for salt-boxes



F. G. MERRIA'M.

Separators for Salt-Boxes.

N0 149 876 PatentedAprl2l,1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE,

FLAVEL G. MERRIAM, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEPARATORS FOR SALT-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,876, dated April 2l, 1874; application filed December 26, 1873.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, FLAvEL G. MERRIAM, of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented an Iinl' proved Salt-Separator for use in Salt-Boxes,

' to sift the salt, the salt is very apt to so stick together as to entirely prevent it from coming out through the perforations. To counteract this clogging and sticking tendency of the salt,

a practice has arisen of putting articles of different shapes into the box to roll around and Those heretofore used have been constructed with projections upon the end disks, which, being at the peripheries of the disks, form cup-like places in their centers, and these cup-like places are liable, especially at the lowermost end of the device, to become clogged and lled with damp or sticky salt, and thus render the endwise action teeth are each divided into two parts by the mortises c c.

I nd by experience that these spurgear teeth are more unlikely to embed into the salt, and thus prevent the thing from rolling and tumbling, and thus separating the salt, than any foi-1n heretofore devised, and from the simple shape of the article I find it cheaper and easier to make than any of the separators heretofore in use.

I claim as :my invention- A saltseparator composed of the rod a., swelling to a disk toward each end, and having thereon the square-edged spur-gear teeth I), all constructed, arranged, and designed for use substantially as described. l

FLAVEL G. MERRIAM.

Witnesses WM. EDGAR SIMoNDs, S. J. SiMoNns. 

